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AMD Linux Engineers Introduce New "schedstat" Tool

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 18:54
AMD Linux engineers have introduced a new perf tool called "schedstat" that aims to be less resource intensive and convenient than the existing "perf sched" tool for profiling kernel scheduler behavior...

GCC 15 Bids Farewell To Solaris 11.3 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 18:45
With GCC 14 stable released and GCC 15 now in development on trunk, new feature code is landing for the GNU Compiler Collection. Among the early features is Microsoft contributing the "Windows on ARM64" target with aarch64-w64-mingw32. The start of the new cycle also brings code removal for features deprecated in prior cycles. Among the old code being cleared out in GCC 15 is saying goodbye to Oracle Solaris 11.3...

Zstd Compression For EROFS Published: Better Than LZ4 But Higher CPU Costs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 18:30
As noted recently, EROFS has been exploring Zstd compression support for this open-source read-only Linux file-system. Today the patch was posted for enabling Zstandard use...

Merged For Mesa 24.2: Faster Startups For Zink, Rusticl Now Handles Bigger Workloads

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 18:13
Two different merges today for Mesa 24.2 are worth calling out for the open-source Linux graphics stack...

How to Migrate CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9

Tecmint - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 16:00
The post How to Migrate CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CentOS 7 stopped getting updates on June 30, 2024, which means it doesn’t get security updates or bug fixes from Red Hat anymore. New options

The post How to Migrate CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Migrate and modernize virtual machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Dell APEX Cloud Platform

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 08:00
This article was written with the help of Nancy Hurley, Dell.Organizations continuously meet changing market demands by managing the future of application development, deployment, and management across their environments. As virtualization teams determine the future of their virtualization infrastructure, Red Hat and Dell are collaborating to provide a next-generation platform and migration strategy for virtual machines (VMs) that is a fundamental component of infrastructure modernization. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, when implemented on Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, sim

GNOME Took In $556k Last Year While Spending $675.9k

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 04:05
The GNOME Foundation today published their 2023 annual report that outlines their accomplishments as well as a look at the finances...

Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 01:44
Microsoft engineers have contributed Windows On ARM64 support to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with the new "aarch64-w64-mingw32" target...

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